Layered Mexican Casserole with Chicken and Cauliflower Rice

Layered Mexican Casserole has Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce, bitter cream, inexperienced chiles, rooster, cauliflower rice, and cheese. And everybody who loves these Mexican flavors will love them on this tacky creamy casserole!

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Layered Mexican Casserole with Hen and Cauliflower Rice is a recipe that will be a winner for a Cinco de Mayo dinner! We liked this low-carb and gluten-free casserole once we examined the recipe. And the recipe was impressed by a touch upon an outdated favourite casserole complaining that the recipe wasn’t low in carbs!

That remark received me questioning about what I might give you for a low-carb model of a layered Mexican casserole with rooster. And this recipe is the completely satisfied consequence of some experiments with Kara to create this recipe that we thought was wonderful! I hope you strive it quickly.

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How did we make the Layered Mexican Casserole low in carbs?

This Mexican rooster casserole recipe has a layer with Inexperienced Chile Enchilada sauce lowered on the range and mixed with inexperienced chiles, bitter cream, diced rooster, and sliced inexperienced onions. The opposite layer has a cauliflower rice combination that additionally has onions, cumin, and inexperienced bell pepper. And naturally, all of the layers have cheese. I promise this recipe will probably be successful with all of the Mexican meals followers who’re watching their carbs!

Why I take advantage of Hatch Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce for the Layered Mexican Casserole:

I’m a long-time fan of Hatch Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce (affiliate hyperlink), a scrumptious canned inexperienced enchilada sauce that’s gluten-free. Despite the fact that the ingredient record has tiny quantities of sugar and cornstarch, the sauce provides solely 3.5 carbs per serving to this recipe. And this sauce is so flavorful and handy that for me it’s a product price utilizing. When you discover different canned Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce that’s additionally low in sugar, by all means use the sauce you like!

How low in carbs is that this Layered Mexican Casserole?

This tasty casserole has solely 10.6 web carbs in a serving, with 18 grams of protein!

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Find out how to make Layered Mexican Casserole:

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1. Preheat oven to 375 F/190C. Spray a casserole dish with non-stick spray.
2. Take frozen cauliflower rice out of the freezer.
3. Put Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce  in a small saucepan and simmer till it’s lowered to at least one cup.
4. Cube onion and inexperienced bell pepper and slice inexperienced onions, and reduce rooster into small cube. 
5. Warmth olive oil in a giant frying pan, add onion and inexperienced pepper and cook dinner till they’re beginning to brown. Add floor cumin and cook dinner a couple of minutes extra.
6. Add frozen cauliflower rice and cook dinner over excessive warmth till rice is sizzling and a few steam has evaporated, about 4 minutes.
7. When Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce is lowered to at least one cup, put it in a medium-sized bowl and stir in diced inexperienced chiles. Style to see if you need some Inexperienced Tabasco Sauce.)
8. When the combination remains to be heat however not sizzling, stir within the bitter cream, diced chiles, and inexperienced onions.
9. Make a layer within the casserole dish with half the cauliflower rice combination.
10. Add half the rooster/bitter cream combination by spoonfuls, and unfold it over the cauliflower rice.
11. Add half the grated cheese over the rooster combination.
12. Make one other layer every of cauliflower rice combination, rooster combination, and grated cheese.
13. Bake uncovered about 30-35 minutes. 
14. Let the Layered Mexican Casserole stand 5-10 minutes earlier than reducing, after which serve!

Make it a Low-Carb Meal:

I’d love this Mexican Casserole served with any of those facet dishes for a low-carb meal:

Weekend Meals Prep:

This Layered Mexican Casserole recipe has been added to a class referred to as Weekend Meals Prep the place you’ll discover recipes you possibly can prep or cook dinner on the weekend and eat through the week!

Low-Carb Food plan / Low-Glycemic Food plan / South Seaside Food plan Ideas:
This recipe for a layered Mexican casserole makes use of a Inexperienced Chile Enchilada Sauce that does have teeny-tiny quantities of cornstarch and sugar. However these quantities are so low that this recipe ought to be low sufficient in web carbs for many low-carb diets. I’m not tagging it as Keto, though it wouldn’t be unhealthy for a one-dish meal. For the unique South Seaside Food plan it might be really useful to make use of low-fat dairy merchandise.

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Historic Notes for this Recipe:
Layered Mexican Casserole was created in 2021 as a lower-carb model of a favourite Mexican Hen Casserole from the previous! It was final up to date with extra data in 2026.